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• IUCN Conservation Congress Marseille, 2021, "Natural allies, Climate and biodiversity are two sides of the same coin"
• 6/8/21: "Katherine Heigl Joins Effort to Save Utah’s Famous Herd of Wild Horses" Treehugger 
• 3/15/21: "Global Sand Mining Is Destroying the Planet and Costing Lives" DW
• 3/11/21: "There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way." NYT
• 3/9/21: "'Frightening' New Data Reveals Humanity Has Destroyed Two-Thirds of World's Rainforest"
• 2/6/21: "Invasive Insects and Diseases Are Killing Our Forests" NYT
• 2/2/21: "How Protecting Wetlands Can Help the Climate"
• 1/29/21: "Biden Executive Order Pushes for Protection of 30% of America's Land, Oceans"
• 1/28/21: "50 Countries Join Ambitious Plan to Protect 30% of Earth by 2030"
• 12/16/20: After Wildfires, Mourning the Loss of California’s Giants, NYT 
• 11/24/20: Deforestation in Para, Brazil has been on the rise - largely because of human activity and land exploitation. How can we stop it?
• 10/19/20: Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia
• 9/21/20: "Humans Destroyed Intact Ecosystem Land the Size of Mexico in Just 13 Years "
• 9/16/20: "Humans Wiped Out Two-Thirds of the World’s Wildlife in 50 Years"
• 9/11/20: "Conservation Works: At Least 28 Birds and Mammals Have Been Saved from Extinction Since 1993"
• 9/10/20: "World's Wildlife Populations Have Declined by Nearly 70% in Just 50 Years, New Report Says"
• 9/10/20: "When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble"
• 9/10/20: "Humans are decimating wildlife, and the pandemic is a sign, report says"  WaPo
• 9/5/20: "‘The World That Darwin Never Saw': Scientists Discover 30 New Marine Species in the Galapagos"
• 8/28/20: "Another COVID-19 reinfection: This time second infection was more severe"
• 7/28/20: "‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders"
• 7/22/20: "Who Suffers When Rainforests Burn?"
• 7/13/20:"Team Lioness: The Kenyan Women Rangers Risking Their Lives for Wildlife"
• 6/26/20 The threatened tribe Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon
• June 5, 2020: "B.C. opens Sunshine Coast forest — home to some of Canada’s oldest trees — to logging"
• ​Last pocket of tropical rainforest in North America under threat
• June 3: "Data Find Rainforests Lost 14,000 Square Miles in 2019" DW
• June 2: Study finds sixth mass extinction accelerating at unprecedented rate
• The Earth Has Lungs. Watch Them Breathe. NatGeo
• To Prevent Next Coronavirus, Stop the Wildlife Trade, Conservationists Say 2/19/20 NYT
• Dozens Of Countries Could Reverse Carbon Emissions Just By Caring For Nature (Forbes 1/26/20)
• Few drug firms are fighting superbug threat (LAT 1/21/20)
• 'The Amazon is Completely Lawless': the rainforest after Bolsonaro's first year.  12/5/19
• Staggering level of waste at Great Bear Rainforest logging operations, data reveals 11/30/19
• Amazon Rainforest Sees Biggest Spike In Deforestation In Over A Decade 11/18/19
• Insect apocalypse 11/13/19
• Understanding extinction — humanity has destroyed half the life on Earth 10/18/19
• Two mountain lions found dead in Santa Monica Mountains had ingested rat poison
• New Report Finds at Least One in Five Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Are Traded Globally 10/7/19
• North America Has Lost Nearly 3 Billion Birds Since 1970
• Mother Earth's MeToo Moment- English Town Joins Campaign for 'Nature's Rights'
• Forests on Utah’s public lands may soon be torn out
• Eggs from Northern white rhinos fertilized 8/29/19
• More of the planet is turning into desert 7/23/19
• We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril 8/13/19
• Human-Caused Extinctions Have Set Mammals Back Millions of Years
• Less Than a Quarter of the Earth Has Escaped 'Substantial Impacts' by Humans
• A new map reveals the causes of forest loss worldwide
• Eight bird species extinctions this decade.
• Edible animals low on the food chain: insects
• Frightening plant extinction rate 6/12/19
• Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
• To solve climate change and biodiversity loss we need...
• The world lost a Belgium sized rainforest in 2018​
• A Mysterious Infection is spreading across the globe​
• 1/8/19 NatlGeo: Go underwater into the overlooked world of freshwater animals
• ​Humanity has wiped out 60 percent of wildlife
• E.O. Wilson on Conservation Requirements
• Scientists agree with Wilson: save half the earth for wildlife
• As habitat fragmentation increases so does extinction.pdf
• Conservation successes overshadowed by more species declines – IUCN Red List update
• Study shows how dogs became friends to humans​​
• The biofuel bomb that will destroy nature
• Strange bacteria kills hundreds of thousands of antelope in the Asian Steppe
• NASA satellite time lapse imagery of life on earth. 
• NYT: Era of 'Biological Annihilation' is Underway
• Why Are honeybees dying off?
• Insects are in Serious Trouble​​

The Human Population Debate

• Were early humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction? 11/30/19
• Heres why overpopulation is a myth 5/24/19
• 5/25/21: WaPo: "It’s wrong to blame ‘overpopulation’ for climate change"
• 5/22/21: NYT: "Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications" 
• 5/31/21: NYT: "China Says It Will Allow Couples to Have 3 Children, Up From 2"
• Human population could take a dive with current trends in fertility
• "All the people: what happens if humanity's ranks start to shrink?" 
• UN revises population projections downward
• The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons, Scientific American
• Forget Overpopulation. The World could soon face a population bust (LAT, 5/13/19)
• Humans cause climate change. Do we just need fewer humans?
• US birthrates plummet (NPR 5/15/19)
• By the End of This Century, the Global Population Will Start to Shrink​
• World is Facing a Population Bust 7/16/20
• Population in more than 20 countries to halve by 2100: Study 7/16/20

Forests and Deforestation: mass extinction and the other species

• 3/25/21: "Both African elephant species are now endangered, one critically" NatlGeo
• 3/11/21: "First study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggests the damaged forest is now worsening climate change"
• 2/2/21: :"The world’s wetlands are slipping away. This vibrant sanctuary underscores the stakes."
• 2/2/21: "Putting our public forests into carbon reserves"
• 1/24/21: "Defanged: Money and Politics Could Doom the Florida Panther — and the Endangered Species Act" (Intercept)
• "Pando, the Trembling Giant: Richfield, Utah, "One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens" 
• 11/11/20: "Indigenous leaders count on Biden to help save Amazon forest from 'brink of collapse'"
• 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
• 10/25/20: Soil Fungi Act Like A Support Network For Trees
• 9/29/20:"Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown" 
• 9/28/20: Why Tree-Killing Epidemics Are on the Rise
• 9/24/20: "As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?"
• 8/5/20: "Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles" (research paper)
• 7/31/20: "How Costa Rica Slowed, Stopped, Then Reversed, Deforestation in Their Rain Forests"
• June 11, 2020: "America's Banks Are Financing Destructive Oil Projects in the Amazon"
• 6/10/20: New Report Documents Global Insect Decline and Calls for Reforming Industrial Agriculture 
• 6/5/20: "Mangroves Threatened by Sea Level Rise Could Disappear by 2050"
• A rewilding triumph-wolves in Yellowstone
• Just 29000 Western Monarch Butterflies Are Left in California 1/27/20
• All the Species Declared Extinct This Decade
• Will We Ever Know the Difference Between a Wolf and a Dog?
• Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst
• Once they are gone, they are gone, the fight to save the Sequoias
• Tropical Forests Are Losing the Ability to Absorb CO2 1/28/20
• Meet the Amazonian Giant That Helps the Rainforest Make Its Own Rain
• Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest: Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
• “Environmentally Friendly” Charcoal Is Subsidizing Destruction of Gran Chaco
• The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
• Who's Burning the Amazon? Rampant Capitalism 8/28/19
• Feeling Sad About the Amazon Fires? Stop Eating Meat 8/23/19
• The Amazon rainforest is burning 8/22/19
• Why the Amazon is on Fire 8/22/19
• In Bolsonaro’s burning Brazilian Amazon, all our futures are being consumed 8/23/19
• Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
• Amazon rainforest close to tipping point on rain 10/23/19
• What Bolsonaro plans to do in the Brazilian Amazon (NYT)
• ​Under Brazil Bolsonaro Amazon Forests Fall NYT 7/28/19
• Land thieves ramp up deforestation in Brazil 7/4/19
• High value opportunities for restoring tropical forests. 7/8/19
• Rainforest on Fire 7/6/19
• 'We Are Literally Sawing Off the Branch We All Live On'- Amazon Deforestation Increasing Under Bolsonaro
• The price of ‘progress’ in the Amazon 6/28/19 WaPo
• Business as Usual Threatens Thousands of Amazon Tree Species
• Amazon Rainforest Near Collapse
• Bolsonaro Stands By as 20 thousand invade the Yanomami Reserve in the Amazon 7/21/19
• World's great forests could lose half of wildlife as planet warms
• The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction​

Biological Impacts of Climate Change

• 8/23/21: "Climate Change Contributed to Europe’s Deadly Floods, Scientists Find" NYT
• 8/11/21: "Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined" WaPo​
• July 28, 2021: "Beyond human endurance: How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive" WaPo
• 6/17/21: "Too hot to live: Millions worldwide will face unbearable temperatures" NatGeo
• 3/4/21: "450 butterfly species rapidly declining due to warmer autumns in the western U.S." NatlGeo
• 2/25/21: "Australian Scientists Warn of urgent action needed to save 19 collapsing ecosystems"
• 2/7/21: "One year Since Australia's Devastating Wildfires, Anger Grows at Climate Change 'Inaction'"
• 2/10/21: "New Study Finds Trees Absorbing More Carbon than Previously Thought"
• Why Planting Trees Is One of the Most Effective Forms of Climate Action
• 12/3/20: The Climate Crisis Is Already Killing People, New Lancet Report Warns
• 12/1/20: Climate Change Threatens Hopi Corn and Way of Life in American West
• 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
• 7/22/20 "Climate refugee wave coming" Propublica and NYT
• 6/26/20 The threatened tribe Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon
• Will climate change push these amphibians to the brink? 
• Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration 1/5/20 WaPo
• The faces of extinction we lost in 2019
• Geographers find tipping point in deforestation
• Climate Crisis Threatens a Third of Plant Species, Endangering Food Supply
• Climate Change Threatens the World's Food Supply UN Warns
• Almost a quarter of eucalyptus trees found to be threatened with extinction
• This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child
• The Answer to Climate-killing cow farts might come from the sea
• California will lose 389 bird species to climate change (Audubon Report, 10/30/19)
• Indigenous farming practices failing as climate change disrupts seasons
• Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
• Don't burn trees to fight climate change, McKibben
• World Forest Wildlife Decline 53% since 1970
• EU plans to plant 3 billion trees and massively expand organic farming (New Scientist 5/20/20) 
• Massive reforestation is key to averting a climate catastrophe 
• Tree planting and climate crisis (Gua 7/4/19)
• The trouble with trees as a climate crisis solution
• Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change 5/25/20 Slate
• Almost 600 Plant Species Have Become Extinct in the Last 250 Years
• Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems
• Humans are causing the extinction of up to 1 million species
• Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the UN Extinction Report 
• 5 Major Crops in the Crosshairs of Climate Change, NPR
• Antarctic Ancient Moss Beds dying from climate change
• Climate Change and Human Hunger
• Pole reversals and the Ice Age
• Deforestation and climate change and extinct bird species
• Trees are our best defense against climate change​
• Climate Change is wiping out parasites, critical to ecosystems
• NG amphibian death C AM
• Warning of 'ecological Armageddon''
• The climate crisis is already here
• Tropical Deforestation and Climate

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